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Keir Starmer is Downing Street’s David Brent
How many resets does it take to make a doom loop? In another attempt to work out what the problem…
Corbyn and Sultana’s party split over trans stance
As if it hadn’t experienced enough splits over the last few weeks, it transpires that Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s…
Are the Scottish Tories too obsessed with the Union?
The end of summer recess (in both Westminster and Holyrood) seems like a reasonable moment to leave tribal party politics…
Does tagging prison leavers really stop them reoffending?
Finally, some good news for the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) – tagging works! Last week, the prisons minister was unleashed…
Why is Lambeth council charging landlords £923 to fill out a form?
Perhaps it’s the left’s puerile belief that all property is theft that has led to Rachel Reeves’s swingeing attack on…
Is it possible to learn anything new about the royal family?
Another week, another round of royal revelations. Following swiftly on from the publication of Andrew Lownie’s bestselling denigration of the…
Can Starmer’s No.10 reset save him?
Parliament’s summer recess has just ended and, on his first day back, Sir Keir Starmer has already announced a reset…
James Lyons’s departure will cost Keir Starmer
When my friend James Lyons told me last summer that he was going to take a gap year, I knew…
Hamas will struggle to recover from the elimination of Abu Ubaida
Despite its extraordinary discipline and repeated battlefield successes over the past two years, Israel has been judged in many quarters…
Why shouldn’t adults play with toys like Lego?
“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child:…
Britain’s Macron moment – and why we should be worried about it
When French president Emmanuel Macron stormed to power in 2017, his ability to respond to the weakness of France’s mainstream…
Why September 1 is the worst day of the year
How are you feeling about the first day of Autumn? If, like me, you get a distant sense of foreboding,…
Boomer hate has gone too far
Charles Murray, whose work on race and IQ has made him something of a darling with the online right, found…
Europe is a paper tiger
“The purpose of NATO,” Lord Hastings Ismay, the alliance’s first secretary general, once quipped, was “to keep the Americans in,…
Mexico seethes over cartels, ‘gringos’ and migrants
ranging from the fate of 130,000 people who have “disappeared” in the country’s drug wars, to discontent over the “gentrification”…
The Good Friday Agreement doesn’t stop Britain quitting the ECHR
It has become an article of faith in some quarters that the UK’s withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights (the…
Who will save Britain from the blight of e-scooters?
A few days ago a pedicab (or rickshaw), decked out in luminous pink, collided with a red London bus in…
Britain can’t win its fight against Big Pharma
Britain has picked a fight with the pharma industry, and it isn’t clear why we think we can win. Not…
Angela Merkel unleashed chaos on Europe
A decade ago today, on 31 August 2015, Angela Merkel made the unilateral decision to open Europe’s borders. The rallying…
America needs its allies
There are ‘great powers’ and other powers. This is a truism of international relations thinking for those who espouse a…
Life isn’t good for everyone in the Cotswolds
On paper, Charlbury is everything the Cotswolds is supposed to be. Stone cottages the colour of anaemic butter. Sash windows…
Students bullied into being woke
If, as Shakespeare observed, “all the world is a stage, and all its men and women merely players,” no place…
Stop the Medicaid ambulance grift
With Congress back in their districts for the August recess, GOP members will undoubtedly be bragging to their base about…
Trump’s tariff war faces its toughest test yet
Trying to work out what is going on with global trade doesn’t get any easier. Just as the world was…
Nicola Sturgeon on J.K. Rowling, Farage and Trump
Last night, Nicola Sturgeon appeared at the Queen Elizabeth Hall to promote her autobiography Frankly. On stage she was questioned by…
